23 is far too low. Our count has 12 developers foldiung in germany alone, we counted over 40 in the UK, we dont know how many others folded in the other countries. This is widly known, I dont know why the Financial Times has this low number.
Its far worse than the article shows. Many studios are still struggling, more failures to come.
I dont know if its widely known, but those guys hacking shadowbane are the same which hacked UO back in the "old" days, the same which hacked Asherons Call. If you are inside the MMO community you know who they are, but somehow this isn't known outside.
Can you spell KoC?
Excel. Most Macs in the earlies were sold because MS put Excel on the Mac first because you can't do spreads easily on a DOS screen. And it sold like hotcakes.
There are many more innovative programs which were created on the Mac and later migrated. Photoshop is one of them as well as the mentioned QuarkXPress and Pagemaker.
On GDC (Game Developers Conference) I saw this thing demonstrated and had time to play with it.
Its small, smaller than the image suggests. Its fast, screen is awesome. The biggest worry "running time on one battery charge" couldn't be answered, the guys said the hardware wasn't final they had. Also the flip cover with the keys simply presses the touchscreen below it. Advantage: saves hardware, disadvantage: flimsy plastic look on the back and the display has to be fully powered all the time.
They showed Lord of the Rings as MPG on it and demonstrated some PC-Phone connection stuff which looked pretty polished.
I still own my HP 41CV with card reader which my father bought me in the states back in 1980+something. I still use it and it only has used up 3 battery packs so far. Nice engineering there.
For anyone interested in the history of HP calcs visit this page: http://www.hpmuseum.org
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23 is far too low. Our count has 12 developers foldiung in germany alone, we counted over 40 in the UK, we dont know how many others folded in the other countries. This is widly known, I dont know why the Financial Times has this low number. Its far worse than the article shows. Many studios are still struggling, more failures to come.
I dont know if its widely known, but those guys hacking shadowbane are the same which hacked UO back in the "old" days, the same which hacked Asherons Call. If you are inside the MMO community you know who they are, but somehow this isn't known outside. Can you spell KoC?
Battlefield 1942: Crashes Asherons Call 2: crashes & graphic glitches Mafia: crashes GeForce 4600 returned into the AGP slot, Radeon 9700 collects dust until drivers are stable.
Excel. Most Macs in the earlies were sold because MS put Excel on the Mac first because you can't do spreads easily on a DOS screen. And it sold like hotcakes. There are many more innovative programs which were created on the Mac and later migrated. Photoshop is one of them as well as the mentioned QuarkXPress and Pagemaker.
On GDC (Game Developers Conference) I saw this thing demonstrated and had time to play with it.
:)
Its small, smaller than the image suggests. Its fast, screen is awesome. The biggest worry "running time on one battery charge" couldn't be answered, the guys said the hardware wasn't final they had.
Also the flip cover with the keys simply presses the touchscreen below it. Advantage: saves hardware, disadvantage: flimsy plastic look on the back and the display has to be fully powered all the time.
They showed Lord of the Rings as MPG on it and demonstrated some PC-Phone connection stuff which looked pretty polished.
This is a phone for me, can't wait
I still own my HP 41CV with card reader which my father bought me in the states back in 1980+something. I still use it and it only has used up 3 battery packs so far. Nice engineering there.
For anyone interested in the history of HP calcs visit this page: http://www.hpmuseum.org